dpwalsh6@cox.net wrote:

I was pretty excited to see the keyboard mapping starting to make it's way into Doggiebox myself. But I think that it's still a little while before we could actually tap something in time like a drum machine. right? Still psyched tho. Happy tapping.

Ah well, it's still good to see. I haven't got kb shortcuts entered into my primary local kit, so I haven't played with it yet anyway!

I did finally manage to fire up the new beta version late last night and play with the new layout stuff very briefly. Having already read a lot on the list about how it works, I had no trouble getting into it (for some reason, getting section/layout part names highlighted for renaming defeated me at first, though clearly I wasn't clicking ferociously enough -- I had a brainfailure coping with that in the older version too ....).

I'm keen to start pulling apart one of my old songs and try reassembling it in the new format to see how it goes. I remember running into all sorts of trouble trying to repeat sections before by copying and pasting and getting out of sync in the process (and deciding I wanted to change the hi-hat sound or something at some late stage of editing and having to go tweak a bazillion entries), and so the new editing approach looks very good to me so far!

A quick look at the kit editor and everything looked pretty much the same to me, though I need to crack open my ns_kit7 samples and start playing around -- I'll assign kb shortcuts this time :) BTW, if anyone knows good sources for downloadable percussion samples at reasonable prices that would be handy. Lots of places seem to sell CDs packed with lots of things I don't need in formats that I can't read for vast piles of money, though there seem to be some (and increasing number, I hope) of places that seem to offer smaller selections for download at relatively modest prices -- a situation that suits the small-time Doggieboxer's situation better. Still, there seems to be a vast reluctance for anyone to actually give any details on what samples they're selling! But I'm keen to fill out my "world percussion" options, which I think will really start to come into its own when we eventually hit 1.2 with the plans for the expandable drum grid and support for multiple kits. There are lots of great online resources that spell out basic rhythm patterns that I could enter into Doggiebox notation as easily as from reading any other drum tab :)

Cheers, Carl